Forbidden in the Koran according to various Islamic extremists include: alcohol, casual male-female interactions between non relatives, and the portrayal of the human face or figure in art.

Add to this the practice of Plastic Surgery. A newly elected Ultra conservative MP in Egypt was booted out of the party and stripped of his title for his new nose job.

He claimed the bandages were the result of brutal roadside banditry but the attack did leave him with a handsome Omar Sharif nose. Better to be beset by bandits with clubs than to seek a surgical consult.

Bandits are praised. Victims are persecuted. Disfigured woman should bear their scars and melted faces.

I am afraid continued plastic surgical practices in Pakistan may result in acid attacks and death threats to the good doctor.

Pakistan is upside down. And the Koran has driven common sense from society.

Intolerance and totalitarianism is an affront to life itself, whether draped in the colours of faith or not. Expressing bigotry and sweeping sentiment simply makes you the same as those whom you denounce.